Hi, I'm currently evaluating Tableau under trial and a key feature I require is to have street level mapping backgrounds, e.g. google maps or bing maps, as my key data is based on long/lat values in Europe.

From what I have achieved so far it appears that the online maps do not go to a level of detail or zoom that I require. The demo tms I recieved from mapfluence then same. The best option I have encountered so far is mapsavvy but this only provide a satellite image map instead of a street/road map style. I am looking at geosavvy but am not sure if this is provided as a WMS.

Has anyone else encountered a similar need for map backgrounds, what other options do I have available? All my research online today has not led me to any concrete answers or solutions. Getting this functionality could easily rule out tableau from potential BI tool selection.

The Mapfluence solution does provide this level of detail--high resolution imagery to see street-level detail. We can also render the existing basemap styles (or custom cartography) at higher zoom levels to meet your specific needs. Can you describe your specific requirements?

Here's the problem: Urban Mapping's mapping solution, and the filled maps are in WGS84 EPSG:4326.

Natively, OpenStreetMap use Google Mercator EPSG:900913.

So, you either need a basemap with the datum you want, and then all the polygon, points and lines to match, or, you have to re-project your data to fit UrbanMapping's basemap and Tableau's choice of datum, WGS84. I suspect you want FK89...yes?

This has come up before - for French users, and UK users, because WGS84 makes these countries look "warped" - they may instead want to show data in the EU datum, and British National Grid.

Much worse is the issue of clipping over the Arctic Circle. If I want to project a flight path from say Germany to USA that goes over the North Pole, the default map will "clip" this.

Let me know your exact requirements, put the request into Craig Bloodworth or me over on the Tableau Mapping LinkedIn Group, and we will see what we can do for you - or you can have a go yourself.

Here's how to do it: you just re-project the files to FK89 in Geoserver ; and for any files you want to analyse in Tableau, make sure your polygons/lines/points (for foreground analysis) are re-projected when you bring them in...

There might be a little confusion over "Filled Map Mark type" and "Polygon Mark Type" here. I don't ever use Filled Maps - I only use polygon mark type, or just circle/line mark type - lines are just connected points (as are polygons).

Both Geoserver (what you will use to render the tiles) and QGIS should recognize FK89. Remember to convert all the SHP files to FK89